TY - JOUR AU - Smolińska, Marta PY - 2012/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - alien city. Grad u toku / alien city. The City In Progress: Marta Smolińska JF - AM Journal of Art and Media Studies JA - Art+Media VL - IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.25038/am.v0i1.6 UR - https://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/5 SP - 47-52 AB - <p>This text is devoted to the phenomenon of the city that functions only in virtuality. And this is exactly the case with alien city — the virtual city “floating” in cyberspace at http://alien.mur.at/aliencity/index.php (created by alien productions from Vienna). Th e website address becomes<br>the threshold of the city. alien city could be compared with the so-called ideal, perfectly laid out cities (for example Sforzinda by Filarete) and its dynamic structure could be juxtaposed with a monad, proposed by G.W. Leibnitz. It is processual, unstable, elusive and limitless. As a delocalized and nomadic structure alien city cannot have any stable history — in contrary, it’s history is changeable, indefi nite and, in fact, unpredictable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -